Re: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

2013-05-19 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
rlwbonsai, 6.05.2013: > I attempted to upgrade my Averatec 3200 laptop from Squeeze to > Wheezy on 5/5/13. The laptop has an AMD Athlon 486 processor > and Unichrome graphics. The only non-Debian software > installed on this machine is Mozilla Firefox. This laptop has > successfully run Sarge,

Re: RE: RE: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

2013-05-06 Thread rlwbonsai
Thanks. The Gnome terminal is now usable in XFCE. Can't check rxvt because trying to start rxvt crashes X. Trying to start it a second time, after logging in from the first crash, crashed the system. I like rxvt from past experience but it seems not to be an option in Wheezy. I really, really

RE: RE: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

2013-05-06 Thread Mark Allums
> Gnome-session-fallback is installed. Classic Gnome is in the > login menu. My comments relate to that. > > Not sure what you mean by 'default profile'. My guess > is ~/.bashrc since I don't have a ~/.profile. I think the > relevant section of ~/.bashrc is: > > # enable color support of ls a

Re: RE: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

2013-05-06 Thread rlwbonsai
Gnome-session-fallback is installed. Classic Gnome is in the login menu. My comments relate to that. Not sure what you mean by 'default profile'. My guess is ~/.bashrc since I don't have a ~/.profile. I think the relevant section of ~/.bashrc is: # enable color support of ls and also add hand

Re: Re: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

2013-05-06 Thread rlwbonsai
This is my sources.list # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 ( 20060314)]/ etch main #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20060314)]/ etch main #deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian squeeze main contrib #deb-

RE: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

2013-05-06 Thread Mark Allums
> -Gnome 3 will not run. Default Gnome is very limited in this > machine. Make sure Gnome's "Classic" mode (AKA, fallback mode) is installed. There is a package for that. Consider installing MATE instead (Google for it.) They recently released a new version which runs very smoothly. MATE is a

Re: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

2013-05-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 09:14:39AM -0400, rlwbonsai wrote: > I attempted to upgrade my Averatec 3200 laptop from Squeeze to > Wheezy on 5/5/13. The laptop has an AMD Athlon 486 processor > and Unichrome graphics. The only non-Debian software > installed on this machine is Mozilla Firefox. This l